Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Mel Gibson

Joanne Samuel

Hugh Keays-Byrne

Steve Bisley

Mad Max (1979)

6.7 5.0K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Australia

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.

Style: exploitation

Plot: petrol, baby, chain, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, villain, bridge, matter of life and death, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Sosie Bacon

Kyle Gallner

Jessie T. Usher

Robin Weigert

Smile (2022)

6.7 4.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

Plot: suicide, new jersey, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), therapist, detective, paranoia, trauma, curse, ...

Cast

Javon Walton

Sylvester Stallone

Dascha Polanco

Moisu00e9s Arias

Samaritan (2022)

6.7 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was reported dead 25 years ago. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), chaos, superhero, street riots, old man, young boy, neighbor, poverty, ...

Cast

Elizabeth Olsen

Sarah Paulson

Hugh Dancy

John Hawkes

Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

6.6 828 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

Plot: mind control, rape, sexual abuse, sibling relationship, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), paranoia, group sex, cult, ...

Cast

Kaneto Shiozawa

Michie Tomizawa

Seizo Kato

Ichiro Nagai

Vampire Hunter D (1985)

6.6 540 votes

Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.

Plot: bounty hunter, based on novel or book, vampire, post-apocalyptic future, gore, count, tragedy, betrayal, ...

Cast

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Alfie Williams

Ralph Fiennes

Jodie Comer

28 Years Later (2025)

6.6 2.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

Style: absurd

Plot: satanism, cult, sequel, survival, zombie, survival horror, satanic cult, zombie apocalypse, ...

Time: post-apocalyptic

Place: england

Cast

Vincent Price

Franca Bettoia

Emma Danieli

Giacomo Rossi Stuart

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

6.6 488 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Italy

Duration: 87 min.

Story: When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.

Plot: vampire, cigarette, post-apocalyptic future, end of the world, zombie, black and white, corpse, disease, ...

The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)

6.6 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.

Plot: london, england, based on novel or book, bunker, post-apocalyptic future, infection, zombie, little girl, ...

Cast

Christian Bale

Zoe Saldau00f1a

Woody Harrelson

Sam Shepard

Out of the Furnace (2013)

6.6 2.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.

Plot: prison, drug dealer, sibling relationship, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), bare knuckle boxing, brother, psychopath, iraq war veteran, ...

Cast

Kenneth Branagh

Kyle Allen

Camille Cottin

Jamie Dornan

A Haunting in Venice (2023)

6.6 2.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Plot: based on novel or book, venice, italy, loss of loved one, detective, medium, grief, whodunit, ...

Cast

Jamie Lee Curtis

Judy Greer

Andi Matichak

James Jude Courtney

Halloween (2018)

6.6 5.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), trauma, halloween, knife, illinois, sequel, murder, boogeyman, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Dakota Fanning

Miranda Otto

Justin Chatwin

War of the Worlds (2005)

6.6 9.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

Plot: daughter, new jersey, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), airplane, based on novel or book, underground, dystopia, alien, ...

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix

Judith Roberts

Ekaterina Samsonov

John Doman

You Were Never Really Here (2017)

6.5 3.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, France

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

Plot: hotel, new york city, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, childhood trauma, flashback, money, murder, ...

Cast

Tom Holland

Daisy Ridley

Mads Mikkelsen

Demiu00e1n Bichir

Chaos Walking (2021)

6.5 2.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.

Plot: based on novel or book, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, unassuming, based on young adult novel, derisive

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Paz Vega

Sergio Peris-Mencheta

Adriana Barraza

Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

6.5 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: China, United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), arizona, human trafficking, sequel, father figure, horse ranch, mexican american border, revenge plot, ...

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

6.5 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: R

Story: Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

Plot: gulf war, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), ambush, presidential election, senator, kuwait, remake, election, ...

Cast

Nicholas Hoult

Teresa Palmer

Lio Tipton

John Malkovich

Warm Bodies (2013)

6.5 6.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

Plot: based on novel or book, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, zombie, zombie apocalypse, interspecies romance, based on young adult novel

Cast

Gerard Butler

Morena Baccarin

Roman Griffin Davis

Tommie Earl Jenkins

Greenland 2: Migration (2026)

6.5 1.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.

Plot: natural disaster, sequel, shelter, protective father, traumatized child, audacious, human resilience, emotional trauma, ...

Cast

Keira Knightley

Alexander Skarsgu00e5rd

Jason Clarke

Martin Compston

The Aftermath (2019)

6.4 727 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.

Plot: based on novel or book, post war germany, post world war ii, hamburg, germany

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Christian Bale

Freddy Rodru00edguez

Eva Longoria

Chaka Forman

Harsh Times (2005)

6.4 787 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.

Plot: prostitute, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), drug use, friends, los angeles, california, theft, drinking, ...

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